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Many AI providers, including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, can store “user interactions” to improve their models, and they all have a cavalier approach to respecting authors’ copyrights, as already amply demonstrated. In a nutshell – they steal...

To add another reason against AI, if any of your manuscript has been written/edited by generative AI (including Word's editing service - switch it off!), it is no longer fully your own work and therefore not covered by copyright law (in Britain...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman

This was done to mine when AI was still new. It means that early draft was fed into the dystopian machine and my work became part of the Borg. If the ancient Irish curses work, and many here literally swear by them, that person will be...

Although, I do like ellipses used sparingly in the way they are intended to be used: for omission or at the end of trailing off dialogue. (When writers use them for dramatic pauses, I get confused and try to work out which words have been omitted...

When I first saw the title of the thread, I thought, I'm such an overwriter because my word counts are high and I have to edit down a lot. But that not what he means here. I am happy to discover I'm not especially guilty of the things Nathan...

I never understood what critiquers were feeling when they said they felt something was overwritten, but now I get it. First, because my last novels came out naturally and fast, especially the last. Of course, further rewrites are necessary, but...